Autonomous routing of network messages within a healthcare communication network
First Claim
1. A method for automatic routing of messages encountered in a healthcare communication network, comprising:
- receiving, by a computer processing system for processing messages within a healthcare communication network, a message in a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format;
parsing the received message to determine values for a set of message fields comprising system and message parameters that characterize the received message, wherein the system parameters comprise one or more of available healthcare communication network bandwidth, current message queue size, quality of service, and network resource availability, and the message parameters comprise one or more of message format, message length, urgency indicator, message source, and identified recipient;
determining whether the received message is missing any message field values required for proper application of a set of conditional rules;
adding default field values for any missing message field value to allow proper application of the set of conditional rules;
determining content payload of the received message, wherein the content payload comprises image data;
performing image analysis on the image data to determine values to which the set of conditional rules can be applied to determine the healthcare communication network destination for the received message;
applying the set of conditional rules to message field values and determined content payload of the received message; and
directing the received message to the determined healthcare communication network destination.
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Abstract
Messages from a network are processed so that each received message is received in one of a plurality of message formats, the content of each message is determined, and a network destination to which the message will be directed is selected, based on the determined message content. The message can be transformed to encompass a variety of format changes. Once content of the message is determined, if image data is detected in the message, then image analysis on the image data can be performed to detect message content that is used in selecting a destination. It can be determined if the message has been received for greater than a predetermined time limit without being directed to a selected destination and, if so, a notification action can be performed if the predetermined time limit has been exceeded.
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1. A method for automatic routing of messages encountered in a healthcare communication network, comprising:
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receiving, by a computer processing system for processing messages within a healthcare communication network, a message in a Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine (DICOM) format; parsing the received message to determine values for a set of message fields comprising system and message parameters that characterize the received message, wherein the system parameters comprise one or more of available healthcare communication network bandwidth, current message queue size, quality of service, and network resource availability, and the message parameters comprise one or more of message format, message length, urgency indicator, message source, and identified recipient; determining whether the received message is missing any message field values required for proper application of a set of conditional rules; adding default field values for any missing message field value to allow proper application of the set of conditional rules; determining content payload of the received message, wherein the content payload comprises image data; performing image analysis on the image data to determine values to which the set of conditional rules can be applied to determine the healthcare communication network destination for the received message; applying the set of conditional rules to message field values and determined content payload of the received message; and directing the received message to the determined healthcare communication network destination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5)
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